The man page for prstat (on Solaris 10 in my case) notes that that CPU % output is the "percentage of recent CPU time". I am trying to understand in more depth what "recent" means in this context - is ...

I have compiled openssl from source on my solaris machine to a newer location apart from the default one. When I set the newly compiled ssl path in PATH variable and LD_Library path and then compile ...

the project currently i am working on require me that fetch all info installed in the system, like total capacity, form factor, ssd or hdd, rotational speed, interface type, etc.
i searched a lot and ...

I currently have two servers both have the exact same hardware, disks, etc.
One server (server1) is going to be the "main" server. It's basically a server with raidz2 that has SMB shares on it that ...

I have a USB disk which when connected to a CentOS 6.5 system shows this as the output in fdisk -l.
Disk /dev/sdn: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = ...

I'm using Openindiana (Solaris 10) containers and I want to let users upload web content over sftp
I'v managed to setup internal-sftp of openssh and lock user under web root.
All the files under web ...

I have 1 real IP and many websites. Initial idea was to separate each website into it's own exclusive-ip (vnic) non-global zone. MySQL server have it's own non-global zone.
Question is: what is the ...

In a Solaris system i use iostat -E and kstat to identify faulted disks. My problem is that I don't know if the problem is on disk, on controller, on bus or on the filesystem layer (ZFS).
The key is ...

I'm trying to adapt some scripts that run under Solaris 5.10 to 5.11. Solaris changed their OS upgrade method, and you no longer install individual patches. The script displays the version numbers so ...

I have a requirement to copy a very large amount of data from a Solaris 9 (Sparc) system to a SLES11 (x84_64) system.
The Solaris system is quite old, and transferring the data over the network will ...

so I was wondering why there are some hanging SSH connection left from some of my automated scripts and I came to a weird issue - SSH, if used without PTY, doesn't terminate when the output pipe gets ...

Looking for advice on best way to determine unused entries (or alternatively, used entries) within response files for Solaris packages. Reason is that there are some response files that have suspect ...

I have the following problem that I have not resolved for a long time now. We have a Linux (x86_64 GNU/Linux) server and a Solaris (SunOS 5.10 i86pc Solaris) server where I work. On the linux server, ...